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Anyone encountered an SJW in real life?

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Southern Jehovah Witness? No, but I have seen some northern ones. They go around neighbourhoods making sure people's doorbells work.
 
Anubis said:
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This is my new favorite thing EVER!
 
Kaido said:
I'm confused by your post. SJW = Social Justice Warrior, which is kind of a derogatory term for someone who gets uptight about stuff like social issues online but usually has lame arguments & acts immature (basically trolling). Lately a lot of people have been applying the SJW to attention-seeking online feminists (hence the picture with the dyed hair) who don't actually argue for the true definition feminism, but just want to trash everything that isn't pro-women. I was saying I know some feminists IRL, but they aren't quite as stereotypical as the Internet makes them out to be in terms of "down with the patriarchy!" & all that, and also that I have a friend who argues against people who are SJW, which is even sillier of an attitude to have. The anti-fanboy fanboy!

OP was wondering if those people really existed. I'm sure they do IRL, but people are more vocal online where they can be anonymous & aren't subject to feeling the heat in-person. OP's location is India; my post was to say that most people in America are pretty chill about stuff & don't really get that uptight in person, at least in general - there are always some vocal outliers (the few nuts who have extreme roadrage & such), but mostly, people don't really act like that in public. Similar to when you're playing on Xbox Live & people go nuts with profanity & threats...it's not something you really see on a daily basis outside of a few uptight people.
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I was just kidding. Was not previously familiar with the acronym.
 
I'd like to think everyone but the dumbest of noobs knows that things on the internet are not representative of offline life. I'd like to think that.
 
Kaido said:
I wonder what percentage of the population really, truly gets offended over stuff like this. If someone wishes me Merry Christmas, Happy Hanuka, Happy Festivus, or good day, I say thanks! Their intent isn't to be a jerk because I celebrate Christmas & they're Jewish, so why get all up in arms about stuff like that? I'm not really a fan of this new sub-culture where people get offended over everything. I can understand getting uptight if someone is actively being mean to you, but getting ridiculously politically-correct to the point of flipping out over it is kind of on the extreme side of things.
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Preemptive strike, yo. If I call out da haterz, I canna be da haterz and amz da morally supperiorz.
 
Yes.

Their face turns red in an angry diatribe totally unrelated to what everyone was talking about in a verbal diarrhea of trying to say 1,000 pages of blogs at once.

Like I know someone who did this about Vegans and people IRL just kinda shrugged like... we'll I'm not a vegan...so...
 
WelshBloke said:
You spent any time on a campus?

Stupid protests are pretty much standard.
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At least 10 times a year a handful of fuckheads come by to give creepy smiles and/or hateful slogans to anyone they can make eye contact with. They became a campus-wide joke last year, which is maybe why I've barely seen them this year. Either that or I live under a rock, who can really say?
 
Ruptga said:
At least 10 times a year a handful of fuckheads come by to give creepy smiles and/or hateful slogans to anyone they can make eye contact with. They became a campus-wide joke last year, which is maybe why I've barely seen them this year. Either that or I live under a rock, who can really say?
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See, you need more pubs on your campuses. It give students something useful to do with their time. 🙂
 
WelshBloke said:
See, you need more pubs on your campuses. It give students something useful to do with their time. 🙂
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I would back that initiative, but there are at least 5 bars within a quarter mile of campus, probably more, so I'm not sure if that would help in our specific case. BUT, if there were a sweet bar immediately between campus and the main dorms right where that Catholic youth center is, that might get enough volume to make a noticeable difference. But then again, to be fair, I am 100% certain that those fuckheads are not coming from the Catholics, they're some obscure evangelical group. It's always some obscure evangelical group. 😡
 
Ruptga said:
I would back that initiative, but there are at least 5 bars within a quarter mile of campus, probably more, so I'm not sure if that would help in our specific case. BUT, if there were a sweet bar immediately between campus and the main dorms right where that Catholic youth center is, that might get enough volume to make a noticeable difference. But then again, to be fair, I am 100% certain that those fuckheads are not coming from the Catholics, they're some obscure evangelical group. It's always some obscure evangelical group. 😡
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See, we had a pub attached to our accommodation. You can sit outside it and heckle (or cheer) protests.

I feel it makes them raise their game when theres a pub full of drunken people marking them for content and commitment. 🙂
 
WelshBloke said:
You spent any time on a campus?

Stupid protests are pretty much standard.
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Except that now with this current generation in college being the first to have grown up from birth with the internet, the internet and real life are the same thing. College protests now are essentially Twitter and Facebook drama taken into real life.
 
BoberFett said:
Except that now with this current generation in college being the first to have grown up from birth with the internet, the internet and real life are the same thing. College protests now are essentially Twitter and Facebook drama taken into real life.
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College protests have always been as inane as Twitter and Facebook. Same petty bullshit, same silly group dynamics, same effectiveness.
 
BoberFett said:
Except that now with this current generation in college being the first to have grown up from birth with the internet, the internet and real life are the same thing. College protests now are essentially Twitter and Facebook drama taken into real life.
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Arent you now getting worked up about "Twitter and Facebook drama taken into real life"?

I.E you're getting worked up about stuff that you've read on the interwebs?
 
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